Racial bias and facial recognition. Black man in New Jersey arrested by police and spends ten days in jail after…
Security firm Cellebrite alleges it has cracked encryption of the most secure messaging app on the market, but Signal founder…
Complaint alleges Google broke US labour laws when it 'spied' on staff who organised employee protests, before firing them
Two privacy complaints filed by Max Schrems campaign group draws robust response from Apple, which labels allegations as 'factually inaccurate'
Amazon's smart home device maker Ring has issued new installation instructions for 350,000 doorbells in the United States, after some…
Messaging titan to implement setting to allow for “disappearing messages” option after seven days, in an effort to bolster privacy
Privacy nightmare? Police ask residents in US city to link their smart doorbells to surveillance hub to reduce local crime
Amazon names former NSA director to board of directors, who was also the man in charge when Edward Snowden blew…
After pushback from Facebook and advertising associations, Apple delays implementation of new privacy controls on advertisers tracking ability
Spying setback. US Court of Appeals rules the NSA surveillance and mass data collection program exposed by Edward Snowden, was…
No need for official government app! Apple and Google to roll-out built-in Covid-19 exposure notifications to smartphones
Google and Facebook's Pacific Light Cable Network (PLCN) cable will not be activated in Hong Kong, after security law and…
Data requests from Hong Kong authorities are being ignored, Google confirms, after China imposed controversial national security law
Milestone ruling. The UK Court of Appeal rules use of automatic facial recognition (AFR) tech by South Wales Police is…
'Madness' says Chinese state-backed media, as America pushes ahead with 'clean Internet' plan, with purge of Chinese tech from US…
European competition regulators launch formal antitrust investigation of Alphabet's Google and its decision to acquire Fitbit
Campaigners claim that UK's track and trace scheme broke data protection laws, but experts say non-compliance understandable considering unprecedented emergency
Alphabet may be able to offset looming EC antitrust probe of its Fitbit acquisition, if it pledges not to use…
Tech giants pledge pause data sharing with authorities in Hong Kong, after China imposed draconian security law for the territory
Privacy win? Google will automatically delete user's website searches and visits, as well as some location data, after 18 months
Software giant follows IBM and Amazon with police facial recognition ban until there is national regulation of the technology
Strategic move? Google, Facebook, Microsoft pledge to improve and standardise annual disclosures around online child exploitation
E-commerce giant Amazon joins other tech firms with announcement it will pause police use of its facial recognition software
Big Blue cancels its facial recognition programs and calls for reform and new ways to work with law enforcement, "to…
We are tracking you. Apple warns looters after some street protests in the United States result in the looting of…
Class action lawsuit seeks $5 billion from Google, for allegedly tracking people's internet usage via browser's 'private mode'
American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against facial recognition firm alleging “privacy-destroying surveillance activities”
French minister defends centralised approach of its Covid-19 contact-tracing app, citing the French and UK's nuclear deterrent
Three months after Firefox turned on privacy feature called DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), Google's Chrome browser gets same feature, but only if…
Security flaws in the NHS coronavirus contact-tracing app could pose risk to user privacy, as the NCSC promises to fix…